Original: Scusarsi riconoscendo i propri errori abbatte ogni forma di orgoglio, spesso causa principale dell'interruzione di molte relazioni amichevoli, sentimentali e professionali.
Source: prevale.net
“"Recognise and acknowledge your mistake, but never admit your mistake."”
Cao Cao (155–220) Chinese warlord during the Eastern Han Dynasty
Statement to one of his advisors when he realised that Cao Cao made a mistake. Source: Romance of the Three Kingdoms. An adaptation of the Sanguo Zhi new 2010.
Attributed
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 93
Attributed
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Christopher Hitchens vs. William Dembski, 18/11/2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctuloBOYolE&t=14m12s <br class="br">2010s, 2010
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
"On Noise"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
John Ruskin book Modern Painters
Volume IV, part V, chapter III, section 22 (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
“I feel very friendly towards your country, but make no mistake I will always be an Indian first.”
Zubin Mehta (1936) Indian conductor
Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,.
Agnes Martin (1912–2004) American artist
her remark in 1966 as quoted by Ann Wilson in 'Linear Webs', Art and Artists 1, no. 7, Oct. 1966, p. 49; as quoted on the Tate exhibition, London June - October 2015 http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/agnes-martin/room-guide/room-nine & by Julie Warchol, on Smith College Museum of Art https://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/Collections/Cunningham-Center/Blog-paper-people/Agnes-Martin-On-a-Clear-Daywebsite <br class="br">1960's
“I acknowledge my debt to Marxian thought without apology.”
Eric Wolf (1923–1999) American anthropologist
Preface (1997), p. xi.
Europe and the People Without History, 1982
“Service (is) the cause of your getting distant from pride.”
Fatimah (604–632) daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah
Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.
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